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Last books read:From Russia With Love, by Ian Fleming1959: The Year That Changed Everything, by Fred KaplanThe Village: A History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh

Currently reading:Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, by Eric SchlosserForensic Accounting For Dummies, by Frimette Kass-Shraibman and Vijay S. Sampath

I read The Goldfinch last year... Not as good as The Secret History but better than The Little Friend. There's a point where Goldfinch begins to drag a bit, but it picks up again after T. leaves L.V. (that will make sense in context, and it is not very spoilery). Love Hobie (in my head, I cannot picture anyone but STEPHEN FRY!) and Boris.

Last book I started was Ripped by Shelly Dickson Carr. I am super fascinated by the Ripper case, but I couldn't finish this. Was just too predictable.

As I'm a fan of the Bridget Jones series, I did read the third book (Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy). I thought what with the major development that was all over the news that I wouldn't like it, but I did. It's bittersweet and really captures well the despair of loss and the prospect of happiness to follow (while not forgetting our past happinesses).

Next up for me is The Luminaries. I don't know anything about it, but it came highly recommended by people whose taste in books I trust.

I just finished Serena by Ron Rash and it took awhile to get into but it was intense starting toward the middle. It should be interesting to see Jennifer Lawrence play this character when the movie comes out.

The one book I recommend to everyone is Never Let Me Go By Kazuo Ishiguro. I've read A LOT of books but this one will always stick with me. One of the best things I've ever read. Oh and thanks for the other suggestions. Putting lots of books on my Goodreads list!

"Storm Kings: the Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers" by Lee Sandlin.

Did you know that back the when the eastern US was still mostly covered by forest, Indians and pioneers discovered what they called "wind roads" - massive wide, winding paths through the forests surrounded by the remains of blown-down trees?

Did you know that Benjamin Franklin once rode horseback alongside a tornado?

Did you know that it used to be against the law for weather forecasters to use the word 'tornado' in their forecasts?

Did you know that a major tornado outbreak in the 1800s led to newspaper editorials speculating that the it might be due to climate change, and that the climate may have changed as a result of the nation's massive deforestation as it was settled?

If you like history and if you're fascinated by tornadoes or weather of any sort, you will find this book so much fun to read.

@liliesrnice: I loved the movie Never Let Me Go with that gorgeous haunting soundtrack but I can imagine the book is much better as they always are. @Caraface: I renamed that book a 1000 Sad Moments. Good gawd that book was difficult to read. Love the author however.

Her Merry Gentry series is good too. A word of advise though, don't bother with collections where she has a short story in them. They are always a snippet of a main book, not original material unless it states so on the cover.

Start at the beginning! A Drink Before the War is tough, racial overtones, but so good. Then Darkness Take My Hand. He also wrote Mystic River, but although the Peen made a good movie out of it, I wasn't really a fan

I didn't care for Mystic River either. I agree with TTM, start at the beginning with Drink Before the War. I personally love series, and Kenzie & Gennaro are very well written characters you get attached to. Hell the psychotic Bubba is my favorite character though.

@TTM- Have you ever read Greg Iles before? To me he is right up there with Lehane. He has some stand alone books, however a few feature a protagonist named Penn Cage and they are great books. I highly recommend them.

I have not, but I am writing down his name, Hammer! Ladies, we should totally do an International CDaN Book Club! By that I mean drink wine and hijack Off Topic threads once a week when skimpymist isn't looking

Never Let Me Go caused a shitstorm in our book club that we talk about years later! Some of us weren't that thrilled with it and the woman who proposed it went off! She never came back and called us all immature bitches!

Ok, to be honest the last book I read was Journey Into Darknmess: The Story of True Story of Kane. I coudln't find my old copy so I ordered a copy off Amazon and it came in yesterday, I opened it to check it and read the entire thing just for the hilarity of Katie Vick.

Yes, it's based on the wrestler Kane and yes it tells his story as if the character is a real person. YES, it is so bad it's great.

If you asked yesterday if would've been The Divine Comedy. I have eclectic reading habits.

I'm good with Sundays; Kristin, does that work for you? Say the third Sunday of every month? I don't think there is an OffTopic thread on the weekend, so how aboot we just pick the lamest Blind Item Almost Revealed or something and go to town?

I played Daniel from Daniel in the Lion's Den in fourth grade.I have Starcraft installed on my computer if that works lol

They wanted me to do some musicals in high school but I always got stage fright thinking of singing on stage. That was before I discovered the magic of beer. Actually, thinking of that makes me want to go sing Karaoke again. I haven't been in years once I quit drinking anything after they changed my meds.

Pillowbook by Sei Shonagon. Actually lots of books, but I recommend this one to all of you who love gossip. It's a diary written by a Japanese court lady in waiting, it's like reading juicy gossip, who is bedding who, backstabbing to become the empress' favorite or the General's courtesan, etc. she describes things beautifully, and sometimes she is snobbish. It's a first hand account of living in a Japanese court.

Crap I can't remember cuz I read like 3-4 books simultaneously... My next one will be the last of A Song of Ice and Fire (been putting it off cuz I don't want to be caught up and have nothing to look forward to). I just read a book called "Mutants" about human mutants and one about the Mutter Museum... I'm reading The Christ Conspiracy upstairs and rereading my way thru Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in between.

This is my first post besides my test one. Have been enjoying TTM and Charlie for weeks now. I love Malcom Gladwell, and am so glad to be reminded of Shogun. I want to read that again. I remember getting carried away by that one. Anybody read The Good Earth?By Pearl Buck. Amazing.

Tana French is an Irish novelist that has 4 mystery/thriller books that are engrossing. They are all connected to the "murder squad" in Dublin, and one member is the focal point of each book. They are very well written and not easily forgotten.

Keeshlo, you in? That makes it Reno, Kristin, Hammer, me and keeshlo if he/she is down. Hammer, how about we try your Greg Iles fellow first, if you can suggest a book and are okay with re-reading it? We could see if we could all round up a copy by next Sunday, the 26th?

Hammer, let us know what book, keeshlo, let us know if you are in!

Everyone else is welcome, too! Sounds like we're all a bunch of read-y mofos!

My very favourite book in the whole world is "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, it got me interested in the Discworld series but isn't a part of it. If you haven't read it, you totally should

All right, did everyone get that? Reno, feraltart, keeshlo and anyone else? The Quiet Game by Greg Iles, first meet up next Sunday, January 26. Woot woot! Wine, much wine! I will put my email addy on my profile in case anyone has any suggestions. You guys rock, this is gonna be so much fun!

@Hammer Girl, I try to never not finish a book. Of all the books I've read, the only one I couldn't get through was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was just waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too dry for me. I guess after hearing how hilarious it was, I was expecting something else and not jokes about the number 42.

It also didn't help that I find British humor to be, for the most part, crap.

I somehow finished World War Z but it left me wondering what everyone saw in it. Then again, I hate Zombie stuff. It's just not entertaining. I really don't see what people see in The Walking Dead, that comic sucked from the beginning.

I downloaded a sample to check it out, and the first part literally made my hair stand on end! The movie version of Dick Halloran, played by Scatman Carrothers (sp?), is one of my favorite characters, so I was happy to "see" him again. I had to wait several weeks to download the rest, but it was worth it.

Oooooohhhhhhh!!!!!! May I join? I've read all of Greg Iles' books and love them! When I heard he had been in a near-fatal car accident a couple of years ago, I'm ashamed to say that my first thought was, WHAT ABOUT THE LAST PENN CAGE BOOK!?!?!?

The Once and Future King and The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd are two of my very favorites.

I'm dying to read the Game of Thrones series but there's a similar series and the author died before he finished writing them. I'm not starting GoT until JRRM finishes the whole deal. No way I'm reading all that and then he doesn't finish the last book.

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